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Rapid repair kit curing question

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By Skinni44 - 7/3/2017 10:55:25 PM

Good evening,

Just a quick question. I've posted before about my project to repair ice hockey skates and I've done some of what I need to do. I'll explain my problem.....

I cut everything to size and prepared before I mixed the resin. I wanted to do it in two parts as I had so much to do and didn't want it all to go to waste before I could get onto the second part. I weighed as half and half but there wasn't 100grams in the resin bottle unless my scales were so far out as there wasn't a whole lot left in the bottle and went with it. I done what I had to do and as I was doing it, the mixture started to go hard so thought result, it's working.

Mixed the rest of mixture and started other skate. I had a feeling that there was too much hardener but as I weighed out the first batch I thought to just get on with it. Well, done the first part all ok and as I was sticking the backing down the cup went up on smoke......literally!

Problem I have is one skate pretty hard on the front and the skate that got completed isn't curing in the same way only an hour later. If it doesn't go hard by the morning, what are my options?

Also, am I stuck and need to order more epoxy from you guys to complete the last little bit of are there other options I can have quicker access to?y
By Skinni44 - 7/5/2017 10:45:23 PM

Just thought I would drop an update.....

I left the skate on the windowsill for 2 days under the sun to see what would happen.......well to my amazement the resin cured!

I must say it hasn't cured 100% as it is still very slightly tacky but I managed to get the peel-ply off and it's hard. I need to order more rapid repair resin to finish the other skate so will just go over the top with a coat when I'm doing that!

Can't believe it but really happy!